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Ebony Adams

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Ebony Adams

Ebony Adams, Ph.D. is an author, activist and former college educator whose work foregrounds the lives and work of black women in the diaspora. She lives in Los Angeles with a steadily-increasing collection of Doctor Who memorabilia. She writes widely on film criticism, social justice and pop culture, and is the coauthor of HISTORY VS. WOMEN.

Rebels, rulers, scientists, artists, warriors and villains. Women are, and have always been, all these things and more. Anita Sarkeesian, founder of Feminist Frequency, along with Ebony Adams, PhD., have reclaimed the stories of 25 remarkable women who dared to defy history and change the world around them. From Mongolian wrestlers to Chinese pirates, Native American ballerinas to Egyptian scientists, Japanese novelists to British Prime Ministers, HISTORY VS WOMEN will reframe the history that you thought you knew.